Sentence examples for a precious portion of from inspiring English sources

But farmers here say they are forced to hand over a precious portion of their harvest to feed the fighters: 45 pounds of beans or grain, and as much as $20 a season in taxes, an enormous sum in a place where most people live on far less than a dollar a day.

"Jill is a precious part of our world," she said.

But this scheme will increase the system design complexity or cost a large portion of precious bandwidth.

The demonstration to apply the combinatorial method using a repeated cyclic voltammetry is reported to find the anodic material for DMFC that shows a higher electrocatalytic activity and that can replace a portion of precious metals with cheap ones.

Based on your newly acquired experience at investing in precious metals, use a portion of your gains to reinvest in rising metals.

These fond memories may explain why this year nearly 50,000 Americans — the vast majority of them modest wage-earners — decided, under a new I.R.S. policy, to buy savings bonds with a portion of their precious tax refunds.

But by using advanced imaging technology, academics have managed to retrieve a large portion of Livingstone's precious words.

A friend of mine who's a tattoo artist had a colleague once who inked so many people when he was drunk and high that my friend now spends a portion of his precious tattooing time trying to fix or cover up the bad work of his former partner.

The point is, it's not much of a stretch to speculate that a lot of people these days would rather lose an ear, or even a hand (or perhaps a more private portion of the anatomy), than their precious iPhone, which has become in some profound way every bit as much an essential extension of the human body, and probably soul.

What a precious waste of time.

"This is not a precious display of precious things," Olowu stresses.